Finish Line Pundit: A Track & Field Blog Details

Name That Olympic Legend!
2007-07-03 17:12:00
Who is the man in this photo?Hints:His nicknames were "White Lightning" then "El Caballo (The Horse)."He was born December 3, 1950 in Santiago, Cuba.He is now an IAAF Council Member.He was a basketball player until he as 21, at which time he was discovered by Polish track coach Zygmunt Zabierzowski.He was eliminated in the semi-finals at the 1972 Munch Olympics.Give up?He is none other than Alberto Juantorena, the first only athlete to win gold medals in both the 400m and 800m at the same Olympics, the 1976 Montreal Olympics. In the photo above he was doing some early shopping for 2007 Osaka souvenirs. In the photo to the right he can be seen outpacing Rick Wohlhuter of the USA and Ivo Van Damme of Belgium in the 1976 Olympic men's 800m final and setting a world record of 1:43.50. Here's the video of that classic race as well as the men's 1500m final. ...
Legend Olympic

Paris Too Hot For Alan Webb?
2007-07-02 07:10:00
This coming Friday's Meeting Gaz de France in Paris Saint-Denis may be too hot for Alan Webb to handle. He is scheduled to compete in the men's 1500m against 7 of the 8 highest-ranked 1500m runners in the world, according to the IAAF rankings. Webb is not even ranked in the top 100. Even so, Webb has the 8th fastest 1500m time in the world this year with a 3:34.82. Since he also boasts the 5th fastest mile time in the world in 2007 with a 3:51.71, he certainly belongs in the race. But how will he do?Ten men in the race have faster 1500m PR's than Webb's PR of 3:32.52. Webb would have to beat his PR by 1.47 seconds just to match Mehdi Baala's 2007 world-leading 3:31.05. Webb's kick at the national championships indicates that he is ready to contend in the European circuit this year. Only trouble is, he is probably going to have to break Bernard Lagat's American record of 3:29.30 to do it. Paris will be a preview of what we can expect from Webb in Osaka.Here's the start list, ...
Paris

Legendary Distance Runner Alberto Salazar Hospitalized
2007-07-01 18:23:00
Alberto Salazar has been hospitalized after collapsing at the Nike World Campus with heart trouble. He did not have a heart attack but a stent has been inserted to open an artery. He is listed in serious condition at the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, OR.You can follow this evolving story by watching the articles from the RSS feed that FLP has added below. It will continuously update you with breaking news on Salazar's condition. Let's pray that his condition improves: ...

My Summer In Europe, by Jeremy Wariner
2007-06-30 18:40:00
Jeremy Wariner's summer schedule is posted on his website. He plans on running 5 races in Europe between July 10th and 8/07/07 leading up to the IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan, which will be held between August 25th and September 2nd. Wariner hasn't listed, like he usually does, which events he'll be running. We can assume that he will be running mostly 400m races with maybe a 200m or two thrown in for speed-tuning purposes. A check of the meet websites doesn't reveal much about which events he will be running, although we do know that he will be racing Oscar Pistorius in the 400m in Sheffield. No 400m Dash is scheduled for the Vardinoyiannia in Greece, so we can assume Wariner will run the 200m there. Wariner is listed in the 200m start list of the Athletissima website. Finally, we can assume Wariner will run the 400m in Galan because he has run the 400m there both in 2005 and 2006, winning both times. As for what event he will run in London, we can only speculate, bu ...
Europe Jeremy Summer

IAAF Decision Makers Do About-Face
2007-06-29 15:29:00
The IAAF has decided to let double-amputee Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius compete in the 400m Dash at IAAF Grand Prix events this summer. You might recall the story about Pistorius that FLP covered here.In that article I suggested that Pistorius be tested against other athletes in his event to determine whether or not he has any advantage from using his carbon-fiber prosthetics. Apparently the IAAF agrees, because they have cleared Pistorius to race. What's more, he will immediately get to test himself against none other than 400m World Champion Jeremy Wariner at the Norwich Union Sheffield Grand Prix on July 15th, 2007. Should be a fascinating race. I wonder what will happen if Pistorius beats Wariner. Will the IAAF immediately ban him if he does win? I have a bad feeling they will. ...
Decision

Good News for American Track & Field Athletes
2007-06-28 18:22:00
The latest IAAF newsletter is out and, guess what? No Americans are on the "Athletes Sanctioned for Doping Offenses" list on page 7!Here is a list of countries cited, in descending order of number of athletes sanctioned:Iran, 8France, 2Turkey, 2Great Britain, 1Jamaica, 1China, 1Brazil, 1Slovenia, 1Belgium, 1Nepal, 1Russia, 1South Africa, 1What, you might ask, is Nepal doing on the doping sanctions list? Apparently, steroids are handed out like chocolates in Nepali sport. In fact, they are chocolates! Here's an article in which the Nepalese athlete who got sanctioned, Rajendra Bhandari, states that his victory in the men's 5000m at the 10th South Asian Games, "is due to my hard work and effort from the coaches." Now that Bhandari has been suspended for 2 years and his victory at the South Asian Games has been nullified due to the "presence of the prohibited substance Norandrosterone (S1. Anabolic Agents) in his doping control sample," we know what kind of "effort from the coaches" ...
Good News News

A Scathing Indictment of Track & Field by the Washington Times
2007-06-27 15:23:00
Dan Daly of the Washington Times offers a scathing indictment of the sport of Track & Field in his latest article, one that focuses on Tyson Gay's recent achievements. Titled On a Fast Track to a Life of Doubt, Daly's contention is that, "Track has never really recovered from 1988. Every year, it seems, it loses a little more of its credibility, a little more of its relevance — and Gay is a prime example of that."What? "Gay is a prime example?" What does Daly know that we don't know? Apparently nothing except for unsubstantiated claims and rumor-mongering. Daly goes on to say that, "with track these days, there's always an "except." We may want to believe Gay's times are genuine, ungoosed by performance enhancers, but experience tells us to beware.""Always?"Shouldn't we be more concerned about a supposedly-objective journalist's sweeping generalizations than about Gay's remarkable performances? Shouldn't experience tell us that there's something wrong with Daly trying to be ...
Washington

Convoluted Selection Process
2007-06-26 21:47:00
I love scanning through the "Today's Headlines" section of the Track & Field News home page. It's so low-tech that it's quaint. Still, it is Track & Field News, so it's guaranteed to contain only the most relevant news on the internet. While scanning the headlines just now, I noticed a particularly interesting headline: Jonathan Johnson Still Hoping For Osaka 800 Berth.Since Johnson finished 4th at the Nationals (only the top 3 in each event go to the world championships), I was curious to find out how he planned on pulling off such a feat.Of course! The issue of the A/B standard rears its ugly head again. Duane Solomon, who finished third in the race, hasn't met the "A" standard of 1:45.40 required in the men's 800m run by the IAAF for an athlete to qualify for Osaka. If Solomon doesn't reach that standard, but Johnson does, then Solomon stays home and Johnson goes.I can understand the point of having minimum qualifying standards at national championships, the world champi ...

Quick: Name the Third Man to Run a Sub Four Minute Mile!
2007-06-26 16:05:00
Let's see, Roger Bannister of Great Britain did it first on May 6th, 1954 with a time of 3:59.4, then John Landy of Australia quickly followed on June 21st, 1954 with a time of 3:57.9, then...Wes Santee? No, he came close, but – unfortunately – the "Ashland Antelope" never did better than a 4:00.5, thanks to the myopia exhibited by the oligarchical power mongers of the AAU prior to the Steve Prefontaine-inspired Amateur Sports Act of 1978, an act that stripped the AAU of its vice-like grip on Track & Field in the United States. For all of the moaning and groaning we hear about the USATF and the way it governs the sport, it's certainly much better than the AAU ever was.Ron Delaney? No, he was 7th.Jim Bailey? No. Although he was the first man to break the four-minute barrier on American soil, Bailey, an Australian, was only the 6th man to break the barrier.I know! Don Bowden! Nope. Although he was the first American to break the barrier, he was only the 12th man in history to do it ...

Team USA Selection Process
2007-06-25 19:22:00
David Woods, a journalist for the Indy Star, has posted an op-ed about the Darwinian selection process for Team USA. Because Sanya Richards, whom Woods considers to be the "world's best athlete" finished 4th in the women's 400m dash at the U.S. nationals and didn't make the team in that (her best) event, he opines that, "as this sport becomes increasingly competitive internationally, Team USA is ill-served with an all-or-nothing selection process." Does Woods have a point?For one thing, Richards certainly didn't look like the world's best athlete on Saturday when she faded to a 50.68 finish, over one second behind Dee Dee Trotter's impressive – and world-leading – time of 49.64 seconds. Yes, she has been fighting an illness all spring and no, she's not in top shape right now. What about Trotter, Natasha Hastings (49.84) and Mary Wineberg (50.24) who all finished ahead of Richards Saturday? Should one of their performances be disregarded because of Richards' ...
Team Team Usa Usa

A Jingoistic Rant
2007-06-24 21:48:00
You might have noticed that the meet assistants at the 2007 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships kept shoving Japanese flags in the winners' hands along with an American flag so that they could take their victory laps waving both flags. What kind of statement does that make?First of all, let me make it clear to any Japanese readers I might have that I have absolutely nothing against Japan or its people. I have nothing but fondness, respect and admiration for Japan and its people and I look forward to watching the upcoming world championships meet in Osaka. But the IAAF World Championships and the Olympic Games are both international (inter= between" and national=of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country) events. In these events athletes who represent their nations compete against other athletes who represent their nations. I ask you, would the Athletes of the Japanese national championships be asked to wave the American flag if the World Championships were to be held in ...

USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships Decathlon and Heptathlon Results
2007-06-24 21:31:00
The USATF website chopped off the results of the men's decathlon and covered some of the results of the women's heptathlon with merchandise advertising. I published them here so that you would be able to see them in their entirety: Multi-Event Results. ...
Championships Outdoor Usa

National Championships: Open Competition, Day 2
2007-06-23 16:47:00
TYSON GAY'S PERFORMANCE INSPIRATIONAL – ESPN2'S JUST THE OPPOSITEIn the men's 100m final of the 2007 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships Tyson Gay scorched the last 25m of the race to win in a time of 9.84. That such a fast early-season time was run into a .5mps (1.1185mph) headwind is every indication of what's to come later on this season, especially at the World Championships in Osaka: Tyson Gay is going to rewrite the 100m history books in 2007.As for ESPN2's coverage of the meet, I can only say that it was hardly worth the hour I invested watching it. Truly mediocre. I've never seen anything as bad as what I saw last night. I've seen more exciting golf coverage. It's not that yesterday's events were boring – far from it. Shalane Flanagan kicked some serious butt like she always does. Torri Edwards' impressive comeback must have felt as good to her fans as it did to her. Watching Bernard Lagat outkick an overconfident Matt Tegenkamp just two hours after winning hi ...
Championships Competition National

What Happens When Runners Lose Their Minds
2007-06-22 22:17:00
From Yahoo News:NEW YORK - Ultramarathoner Dean Karnazes will attempt to break the world record by running more than 153.76 miles in 24 hours on a treadmill in Times Square. This is what happens when runners lose their minds from overdosing on endorphins.Seriously, though, it's for a worthy cause. Karnazes is raising money for Athletes for a Cure Foundation, an organization devoted to funding prostate cancer research.Yahoo also indicted that Karnazes' "next goal is to run 4,200 miles across North America in the spring."I wish Mr. Karnazes the best of luck. I also recommend that he search this site for a reputable psychologist. ...
Minds Runners

New Track and Field...er, that is, Athletics Blog
2007-06-22 18:54:00
Athletics Weekly, the British version of Track and Field News, seems to have quietly started a new blog. I have found only 3 posts, and I can't imagine older posts would just disappear, so it seems that we've managed to jump on board right as this blog is leaving the station.As expected, the posts tend to focus on British athletics. So far, Jason Henderson, Editor at Athletics Weekly, has written about the relationship between high IQ and athletics performance. Britta Sendlhofer has written about sponsorship of British Athletics. Henderson has also published a post about the Great Ethiopian Run in Addis Ababa, so the blogging is not excusively about British athletics.If you want some insight into the British perspective on track and field... er, that is, athletics, their new blog is certainly worth checking out. ...
Blog

National Championships: Open Competition, Day 1
2007-06-22 03:28:00
FINALSMen's Javelin ThrowBreaux Greer broke his own American record and world-leading mark of 90.71m with a huge throw of 91.29m. You might recall that the Pundit called this one beforehand. One down, six to go! Greer also set a USATF Championship record for consecutive victories with his 8th national title.The following athletes will represent Team USA in Osaka1st Place: Breaux Greer, 91.29m (New American Record)2nd Place: Mike Hazle, 75.06m3rd Place: Justin St Clair, 74.71m Women's Triple Jump American-record holder Tiombé Hurd did not finish in the top 3. Hurd has not had a good 2007 season. She qualified for the National Championships with a jump of 13.43, a mark that ranked her only 13th going into the meet.The following athletes will represent Team USA in Osaka:1st Place: Shani Marks, 14.08m2nd Place: Yvette Lewis, 13.59m3rd Place: Erica McLain, 13.57mMen's 10,000m RunThe following athletes will represent Team USA in Osaka:1st Place: Abdi Abdirahman, 28:13.512nd Place: Galen ...
Championships Competition National

New Era for Track & Field Records?
2007-06-21 22:41:00
If you're a track and field purist, you might want to avert your eyes because you might not like what you're about to read. There's been talk again of scrubbing the record books clean, establishing a new set of records for the sport and/or (as Garry Hill, editor of Track & Field News, suggests), "going to a bifurcated system... [to] give the sport back its thrill of the world record chase."The other day Track and Field Superfan suggested a slight rewrite of some of the records. Now David Woods of Indystar.com puts in his two cents (and, if you track purists are still with us, this is your last chance to get out while the getting is good):"A convenient way to amend some records is to change weights of implements (shot, discus, hammer) or to raise heights of women's hurdles."I have long-thought it would be a good idea to go the rest of the way in the gender-equalization of events and implements. Women have come a long way (literally and figuratively) from the days when the longes ...
Records

Miss Manners Hacks USATF Website?
2007-06-21 12:01:00
Obviously Miss Manners has hacked the USATF's National Championships website. What other reason could explain the link I found to to an absolutely useless page titled Professionalism? When I saw that link while perusing the Athlete Information page, I clicked on it, expecting to find a codified 232-page manual along the lines of the IAAF Competition Rules, one that covers competition rules, doping, eligibility, and the like. Instead, I found a skimpy, persnickety, useless exercise in overstating the obvious.It offers a handful of school-marmy tips intended to, "help raise the bar of professional demeanor, attitude, and interaction before, during, and after events." There's no mention of doping, tampering with lab tests, making false starts, or running outside of one's assigned lane like one would expect to find in an overview of professionalism; rather, Miss Manners exhorts athletes to "wear [bibs] in the best place to preserve your uniform's sponsor marks and team name, " and to " ...
Website

The Pundit Calls His Shot
2007-06-21 01:39:00
I've put on my prognosticator's hat (gray felt with a green feather) so it's time to make those predictions that will either make me look like I might know what I'm talking about or else make a complete fool out of me. Here's my list of which American records are safe and which ones are in danger this week at the AT&T USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. [Takes deep breath.] Here we go:Green=SafeRed=In DangerMEN100m (record: 9.79, Maurice Greene)200m (record: 19.32, Michael Johnson)400m (record: 43.18, Michael Johnson)800m (record: 1:42.60, Johnny Gray)1,500m (record: 3:29.30, Bernard Lagat)5,000m (record: 12:58.21, Bob Kennedy)10,000m (record: 27:13.98, Meb Keflezighi)110m Hurdles (record: 12.90, Dominique Arnold)400m Hurdles (record: 46.78, Kevin Young)3,000m Steeplechase (record: 8:08.82, Daniel Lincoln)20,000m Race Walk (record: 1:23:40.0, Tim Seaman)High Jump (record: 2.40 m/7'10½", Charles Austin)Pole Vault (record: 6.03 m/19'9¼", Jeff Hartwig)Long Jump (record: ...

200m School with Professor Ato Boldon
2007-06-20 16:57:00
Since the AT&T men’s 200m Dash takes center stage at 2007 AT&T USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships, let's have a quick video lesson on how to run (and, by extension, how to watch) the 200m dash. Ato Boldon, the 1997 200m World Champion from Trinidad and Tobago and now the color commentator for track meets on both NBC and CBS, is certainly an authority on the event, having run a lifetime best of 19.77 seconds in the event. ...
Professor School

Clyde Hart: 400m Dash Guru
2007-06-20 16:31:00
The first rounds of the men's and women's 400m dash at the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be held tomorrow. Two of the top athletes competing tomorrow – Darold Williamson and Sanya Richards – are coached by Clyde Hart, Director of Track and Field at Baylor University. Hart, as you may know, coached the indomitable Michael Johnson and currently coaches 400m king Jeremy Wariner. I unearthed a video that features coach Hart talking about the event, his protégés and his coaching philosophy. Listen to what he has to say about Williamson and Richards. ...
Clyde Guru

View of IU Michael A. Carroll Track & Soccer Stadium from 1286 ft
2007-06-19 23:45:00
I thought you might get a kick out of seeing an aerial view of the Indiana University Michael A. Carroll Track & Soccer Stadium, the venue where the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships will be held beginning tomorrow. This image is courtesy of Google Earth. If you've never downloaded this program, I highly recommend that you do so. It's a blast![double-click on thumbnailfor full-size image]IU Michael A Carroll Track and Soccer Stadium1001 West New York StreetIndianapolis, IN 46202-5193[for more information, visit the IUPUI website] ...
Soccer Stadium View

USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships Are Nearly Upon Us
2007-06-19 21:00:00
Indiana University's Michael A. Carroll Track & Soccer Stadium in Indianapolis, IN will host the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships beginning on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 12:30PM with the junior women's heptathlon 100m hurdles. The National Championships go all the way through Sunday, June 24, 2007, concluding at 2:50PM with the men's 110m High Hurdles. Of course, Team USA will be determined based on performances at this meet. Team USA will go on to compete at the IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan beginning 67 days from now. The Status of Entries page over at USATF.org is bursting at the seams with qualifiers. TV coverage begins Friday.WOMEN'S FINALSThursday, June 21, 2007 6:20 PM Triple JumpThursday, June 21, 2007 8:55 PM 10,000mFriday, June 22, 2007 4:00 PM Discus ThrowFriday, June 22, 2007 7:00 PM Javelin ThrowFriday, June 22, 2007 8:04 PM 100mFriday, June 22, 2007 8:14 PM 5000mSaturday, June 23, 2007 2:26 PM 1500mSaturday, June 23, 2007 2:36 PM 400m Richards f ...
Championships Outdoor Usa

Slate Article "Explains" But Doesn't Offer Conclusions About the Accuracy of Electronic Timing
2007-06-19 19:01:00
Daniel Engber, an associate editor and self-proclaimed "Explainer" at Slate, recently posted an article on their website that asks these questions:Can we trust track & field records? How accurate are they? How accurate are the devices used to time these events?He goes on to describe the minutia associated with electronic timing. But does he answer his own questions? I read the entire article several times to try and sort through the facts and to determine whether or not he answers the questions he poses in the article.He suggests that the finish lines of track, due to their imprecise placement, are not even the true finish line – at least for determination of world records in the 100m and 200m dashes. Instead, he suggests that the real finish line is a virtual "thin slice of space" created by photo finish cameras right above the track's physical finish line. I can buy that.He talks about how hand-timing is allowed in events longer than 800m and how "official times are of ...
Article Electronic Explains

Gender Differences in Athletic Performance, Part 2
2007-06-19 02:50:00
In my original post Gender Differences in Athletic Performance, I compared current men's and women's IAAF world records to try and determine whether or not the theory that there is a 10% gender difference for athletic performances is true. For the most part it was reasonably accurate, but there were some glaring exceptions, notably in the field events and in the sprints. Track and Field Superfan cleared up some of these discrepancies by suggesting that the disputed records be tossed out.I took his suggestions and recalculated the variances. (See chart below. Superfan recalculations in bold. Variance of more than 2% highlighted with yellow background.) When I did, some of the variances fell more in line with the 10% theory, but most actually went further away and not in favor of women. The average discrepancy is 12.12% (12.54% for Superfan recalculations), but if you take out the field events and calculate the average only for the running events, the average discrepancy is 10.61% (or ...
Differences Gender Performance

FLP Polls: Will Wariner Break the 400m World Record in 2007?
2007-06-18 21:28:00
Will Jeremy Wariner break Michael Johnson's World Record of 43.18 in the 400m dash in 2007? Take the FLP poll! Free Poll - Take Our Poll MySpace Poll - Take Our Poll ...
Polls Record

Some Statistics: 2007 USATF U.S. National Championships
2007-06-18 18:47:00
I was taking a look at the Status of Entries page on the USATF website. Here are a few observations I made (as of 6/18/07 at 11:30AM):Number of Applications: 1188 (men: 655, women: 533)Qualified (Met "A" Mark): 830 (men: 419, women: 411)Provisional (Met "B" Mark): 247 (men: 175, women: 72) Not qualified (mark not acceptable; reasons vary): 70 entries (men: 37, women: 33)Most Applications, by Affiliation: (you guessed it) Unattached, 460 entries/121 qualified2nd Most Applications, by Affiliation: Unattached/Nike, 152 entries/61 qualifiedMost Applications, by actual team: Oregon TC Elite, 17 entries/12 qualifiedMost Applications, by event (men): 100m, 61Most Applications, by event (women): 200m, 40Largest Field, by event (men): Men's 800m, 21Largest Field, by event (women): Women's 200m, Smallest Field, by event (men): 20 km Race Walk, 9Smallest Field, by event (women): 20 km Race Walk, 8Events in which 100% of entrants qualified: Women's High Jump, Women's Masters Mile, Men's Ma ...
Championships National Statistics

Training Methods on the Web, Part 1
2007-06-17 18:05:00
I happened across a 29 page training manual (PDF required. If you don't have it, get it here.) written by New Zealand's acclaimed running coach, Arthur Lydiard. It even has a section that tells you how to lace your shoes properly!Finding such a gem inspired me to search for some more websites that offer solid training tips for runners, jumpers and throwers. Here's what I found:Training for the Champions (Haile Gebreselassie, Sebastian Coe, Japhet Kimutai, Wilson Kipketer, Norredine Morceli, Herb Elliott, Hichem El Geurrouj, Paul Tergat, Kip Keino, Jim Ryun, Bob Kennedy) [link]Sample of Seb Coe's training method:Never ran more than 90km a week Trained extensively with weights during winter Focussed on aerobic capacity training at 5000m pace to build aerobic endurance Training at 18 years of age (1500m 3:45; 3000m 8:14): Example 1: Sunday A.M. 5 miles easy; P.M. 30 x 100m on slight hill Monday 7 miles easy Tuesday 7 x 800m Wednesday 11 miles easy Thursday A.M. 1 x (400m + 300m + 20 ...
Training Web

Gender Differences in Athletic Performance
2007-06-16 17:38:00
After I heard the radio broadcast of Meseret Defar's fabulous Women's 5000m world-record run yesterday, I recalled a theory stating that due to physiological gender differences (VO2 max, body fat %, efficiency of stride, etc.) there is approximately a 10% difference between men's and women's world records. I also recall hearing that the longer an event, the less difference there are between the two genders; either that, or the advantages women have (smaller mass means less heat required to be expended, fat is burned more efficiently) in the longer events cancel out the disadvantages they may have (see above). I wondered if that was true for the 5000m based on this new record so I did a little analysis.Meseret's record of 14:16.63 is indeed only 11.6% slower than the men's world record of 12:37.35. Looking at the 5000m, the statistic seem to bear out the theory. How do women compare in other events?100, 6.9%200, 9.5%400, 9.3%800, 10.7%1000, 11.4%1500, 10.6%Mile, 11.7%2000, 12.5%St ...
Differences Gender Performance

Incredible New World Record by Defar!
2007-06-15 21:55:00
(photo courtesy of www.bislettgames.com)At the ExxonMobil Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, Meseret Defar of Ethiopia smashed her own world record of 14:24.53 in the women's 5000m run by 7.90 seconds with an incredible 14:16.63. Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot also dipped under the record with a time of 14:22.51. In a post-race interview Defar said she expects to run a 14:10 in the future.Osafa Powell of Jamaica won the men's 100m in a time of 9.94, the 2nd fastest 100m in the world this year, Powell's time is only 1/100th of a second behind Walter Dix' 2007 world-best time of 9.93. For complete results and news, visit the Bislett Games website here. ...
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